Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.